#Immunology #Immunosky #computational_biology #evolutionary_biology #tradeoffs #Pareto #microbiology #host_pathogen #applied_mathematics

From Plato to Pareto: Defining the shape of infection’s disease space All malaria outcomes fall within a tetrahedron in microbe-by-immunity-by-damage space.

In our new paper, we used data from 500+ infections to show that disease outcomes aren’t random but cluster into distinct archetypes reflecting tradeoffs between immunity and tolerance. A simple host-pathogen model reproduces these shapes, offering a geometric lens on immune strategies.

Iran strikes: What do we know about Israel's Weizmann Institute? An Iranian missile hit the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv. One of Israel's most prominent scientific centres is known for its technological support to the Israeli military...

www.euronews.com/2025/06/15/i...

A few days ago a missile hit one of my favorite places: the lab where I spend almost every day of the last 3 years, where I grew up professionally and personally.
As Odin said: Asgard is not a place; it’s a people. Where the people are, the science will continue to be.
We will rebuild!

It took me so long to feel “back like myself” after my first pregnancy. In some senses, I never did. This amazing mega-scale study by my lab mates researches the dynamics of different systems during pregnancy, and finally gives an explanation to these feelings I had.
A must read!

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Yesterday, after just a few back-and-forth with chatGPT, I created my more updated website. It now doesn't have pictures of dogs, but you can find there my research interests, my publications, and some cool links to things I do.
Check it out!
yaellebel.github.io

When I was 8 or 9 years old, my father taught me some basic html to make my own website. I don't exactly remember what it was about - maybe about dogs? Anyway, it was very basic, and took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to produce.

Preparing and giving this talk had been a great opportunity, thanks to the greatest coach Inbar Amir (look her up) and of course the Azrieli Foundation.

Yael Lebel YouTube video by Azrieli Fellows Program

As a child I really wanted to be a doctor. So how did I end up a PhD student combining physics and immunology, standing in front of a crowd talking about trashy Netflix shows and toilet tanks? 🤔 Watch it all come together at the talk I gave at the last Azrieli fellows forum.